Vietnam Quotes · Page 12

From Vietnam's 'Deer Hunter' to Iraq, films are never about the person who has had his house destroyed.

— Mira Nair

Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

— R. Lee Ermey

I think Afghanistan has turned into the Vietnam of my generation, only with a better homecoming.

— Brandon Webb

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The fact is that the Vietnamese held Americans after 1973.

— Bo Gritz

My dad was a fighter pilot with the 210th Combat Aviation in Vietnam.

— Harris Faulkner

“Our lives are a story shaped by circumstance, twisted by Fate, and ultimately judged by how we reacted.”

— Mary Marchese

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

— Ron Kovic

It would be good for the workers in Vietnam even as it helps make sure that they're not undercutting competition here in…

— Barack Obama

The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.

— Walter Cronkite

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse…

— Mike Gravel

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

— William Westmoreland

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw…

— Sam Donaldson

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act…

— Noam Chomsky

What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we…

— Anonymous

Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we…

— George Clooney

In our fervor to halt the potential spread of totalitarianism, what incredible precedent are we setting in Vietnam? By marching our legions…

— Robert Vaughn

When I was in Vietnam I learned a lot about the promises that soldiers make to each other. The Marines have a…

— John F. Kerry

We had much more imagery from Vietnam war. The media was not controlled. The storyline, the master narrative was not controlled. I…

— Anne Waldman

First, there are some of my readers who only read Hap and Leonard, not the other stuff, and some who don't read…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Some 30 years later I found myself back here again [in Vietnam] on what was to be a short visit that lasted…

— Doug Rice

The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.The same people will…

— Muhammad Ali

The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam…

— Paul Dickson

I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part…

— Anne Waldman

I believe the liberal international order is under assault from Russia, and from other authoritarian regimes, and it is being questioned from…

— Daniel Fried

“I thought, Dad. Could I go to Vietnam for you? Dad, I could do it. I could do it for you. I…

— Tucker Elliot

“I took the thin magazine from the pouch in front of me and began to thumb through it. I felt self-conscious, as…

— Walter Dean Myers

People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know…

— Rob Zombie

One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam…

— Noam Chomsky

No liberal newspaper ever talked about the invasion of Vietnam; they talked about the defense of Vietnam. And then they were saying,…

— Noam Chomsky

The visa thing can be an issue, if you're going to work for someone here make sure they will help you with…

— Doug Rice

Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia,…

— Arundhati Roy

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“There was something that resonated on a deep… spiritual level… about cutting a man in half.”

— William Kely McClung

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

— William Westmoreland

My district is home to a large Vietnamese population, including many who fled Vietnam to escape communism.

— Michelle Steel

The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars.

— Ann Coulter

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

— Brendan Fraser

The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war.

— John McCain

You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.

— Richard M. Nixon